On Nov 11, 2007 2:07 PM, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is anyone other than myself interested in seeing an > > IA64/Itanium port > > of OpenSolaris? > > Would that be cool? Why, yes it would! > > Would it be a justifiable return on investment? No. > > Here's the deal: > > who's running IA64? Only two firms, sgi and hp.
Actually, believe it or not, IA64 seems to have found a niche with worldwide Mainframe builders. (excluding IBM). http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3705016 > hp's servers are WAY TOO EXPENSIVE to buy just to run HP-UX, let alone > (Open)Solaris. Take a look at USED rx Integrity servers on ebay, even those > are expensive enough to make one's nose bleed (as much as I would love to run > HP-UX on Itanium!) > > Where it might make sense to run (Open)Solaris on Itanium, it would be the > sgi Altix servers. That's sgi's NUMAflex hardware with Itanium CPUs, > currently running a "sgi Propack" Suse Linux because sgi is in so much > financial trouble (and too stupid) to have ported IRIX 6.5 to Altix. > > Has anyone heard anything about Polaris, the PPC port lately? Um, nope. Why? > Because once people got into the port, they realized that it's a lot of work; > and that's even with the existing prior work done by Sun for Solaris 2.5.1. > > If you can muster enough developers to work on the port of (Open)Solaris to > sgi Altix, then sure, go for it. But where are you going to get the people > who know enough about Altix hardware? sgi's hopped up on Linux, I doubt any > help would come from them. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
